A Two-Years' Survey on the Prevalence of Tuberculosis Caused by Mycobacterium caprae in Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) in the Tyrol, Austria

Table 2

MIRU-VNTR consensus type “Lechtal” given as copy numbers for the standard 24 loci. Minimal variations in single loci occurring in 3 of the 9 isolates are shown as variants.

VNTR locus name	Copy number	Variants
MIRU 2	2
MIRU 4	2
MIRU 10	6	5
MIRU 16	4
MIRU 20	2
MIRU 23	4
MIRU 24	2
MIRU 26	4
MIRU 27	3
MIRU 31	3
MIRU 39	2
MIRU 40	2
VNTR 424	4	2
VNTR 577	5
VNTR 1982^a	3
VNTR 2401	4
VNTR 3690	1
VNTR 4156	3
VNTR 1955	2
VNTR 2163^b	5	4^b
VNTR 2165	5
VNTR 2347	3
VNTR 2461	3
VNTR 3171	2
VNTR 4052	3

^aVNTR 1982 (not included in the standard loci panel) was determined additionally.
^b Denotes pattern “Kaisers” (see text).